Black Inventors Hall of Fame Program at Scotch Plains Public Library

Please join us at the Scotch Plains Public Library on Saturday, February 8 at 2:00pm for a very special program honoring unsung Black inventors who persisted against tremendous odds and adversity to create inventions that changed lives for the better. From enslaved men and women inventors who were unable to patent their ideas due to not being recognized as citizens, to contemporary innovators in many fields, this talk will fill a crucial gap in our knowledge of how Black inventors have shaped our world. It is time that exceptional inventors are immortalized by being inducted into the Black Inventor’s Hall of Fame.

We are pleased to welcome James Howard, the Executive Director of The Black Inventors Hall of Fame, as well as lecturer, design historian, and industrial designer/inventor of some 300 products with 20 patents.

“The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people."

Registration is requested, and will allow us to send you a reminder before the program.

For more information or to register, go to www.scotlib.org, email library@scotlib.org or call (908) 322-5007 x 204. The Scotch Plains Public Library is located at 1927 Bartle Avenue.